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Above all Books, read the Holy Bible; let no day pass without tasting of some heavenly Manna thence. And to assist the Frailties of your Memories, buy a Concordance. Downham and Wickens are the least; Cotton, or the Cambridge-Concordance are larger and better; whereby, if you remember but one Word, you may find in what Book, Chapter, and Verse the Sentence is: And then to open to you, what is difficult in Scripture, buy Bishop Hall's Paraphrase on the hard places of Scripture, or, which is fuller, the Dutch Annotations. To ground you and your Family in the Christian Doctrine, you may have the Assemblies Confession and Catechisms; to which you may add, Mr. Ball's Catechism, with the Exposition, or Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, and also Dr. Gouge on the Lord's-Prayer, Dr. Pearson on the Creed, Mr. Dod on the Commandments, and Mr. Vines, with Mr. Dolittle on Sacrament; and then, the Practice of Piety, and the Whole Duty of Man will be very useful both for your Instruction and Devotion: Mr. Dent's Plain Man's Path-way to Heaven, Mr. Shepherd's Sound Reliever, Mr. Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, and Mr. Allen's Vindiciae Pietatis, will all of them be of great use, for the promoting the Work of Conversion in your selves and Family: buy also Dr. Gouge's Book of Domestical Duties, whereby Husband and Wife, Parent and Children, ⟨p. 219⟩Master and Servant will be instructed in their Relative Duties; read also as many of the Lives and Letters of learned and holy Men, as you can, whereof you have a large Collection in Mr. Clark's Lives, and Martyrology: You should also have Mr. Perkins, Dr. Ames, or Bishop Hall's Cases of Conscience, to which you may resort in dubious Cases for Direction; Bishop Jewel will largely, and Mr. Pool's Dialogue will briefly sufficiently arm you against Popery. And then, for Practical Divines, these following are the best I remember, Dr. Preston of the New Covenant, and on the Attributes; Mr. Perkins, Mr. Hildersam, Mr. Rob. Bolton, especially his Directions for a comfortable walking with God, Mr. Tho. Hooker, Mr. Fenner, Mr. Scudder's Daily walk, Mr. Capel of Temptations, Dr. Harris, Mr. Reyner, Dr. Reynolds, Mr. Gurnal his Christian Armour, Dr. Tho. Goodwin, Mr. Baxter's Directory, and everlasting Rest, Dr. Manton's and Dr. Tillotson's Sermons. And because you should have some Diversion: For History, read Mr. Fox's Acts and Monuments, Dr.

Above all Books, read the Holy Bible; let no day pass without tasting of some heavenly Manna thence. And to assist the Frailties of your Memories, buy a Concordance. Downham and Wickens are the least; Cotton, or the Cambridg-Concordance are larger and better; whereby, if you remember but one Word, you may find in what Book, Chapter, and Verse the Sentence is: And then to open to you, what is difficult in Scripture, buy Bishop Hall's Parephrase on the hard places of Scripture, or, which is fuller, the Dutch Annotations. To ground you and your Family in the Christian Doctrine, you may have the Assemblies Confession and Catechisms; to which you may add, Mr. Ball's Catechism, with the Exposition, or Bishop Ʋsher's Body of Divinity, and also Dr. Gouge on the Lord's-Prayer, Dr. Pearson on the Creed, Mr. Dod on the Commandments, and Mr. Vines, with Mr. Dolittle on Sacrament; and then, the Practice of Piety, and the Whole Duty of Man will be very useful both for your Instruction and Devotion: Mr. Dent's Plain Man's Path-way to Heaven, Mr. Shepherd's Sound Reliever, Mr. Baxter's Call to the Ʋnconverted, and Mr. Allen's Vindiciae Pietatis, will all of them be of great use, for the promoting the Work of Conversion in your selves and Family: buy also Dr. Gouge's Book of Domestical Duties, whereby Husband and Wife, Parent and Children,